As a child, I gained the deepest understanding of food, without even knowing it.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

I had the archetypal French bucolic upbringing, in a peasant village in deepest Burgundy.

It's a little bit more dangerous, obviously, when you have large gatherings and food laid out like this. We tend to feast and nibble and snack all afternoon.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food